11.   At a morning cabinet meeting, Hashimoto had said the government would consider new laws to ensure public servants are fair and impartial.

12.   The government maintains it has tried to promote home ownership, but current tax laws ensure that home owners get little fiscal advantage over tenants.

13.   The government maintains it has tried to promote home ownership, but even so current tax laws ensure that home owners get little fiscal advantage over tenants.

14.   The laws ensure huge tax breaks and an array of privileges in such areas as customs duties and value-added and corporate taxes.

15.   The new law will ensure fiscal security for the government by increasing royalty rates, Ali Rodriguez said in an interview published Sunday in local daily El Nacional.

16.   The new law will ensure fiscal security for the government by increasing royalty rates, Rodriguez said in an interview published Sunday in local daily El Nacional.

17.   The proposed law would ensure that interrogators who followed government guidelines could not be prosecuted, he said.

18.   U.S. officials said they will push for his extradition, though Mexican law virtually ensures that he would go through years of trials here first.

19.   But Islamist deputy Nasser al-Sania told reporters after the debate that a law would ensure the rules were implemented.

20.   Such laws would ensure that the legitimate rights of religious groups, religious sites and religious people are protected, Amat was quoted as saying.